Koṭumpāḷūr, sluice inscription, no king, no year author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSKotumpalur00051

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Stone-slab inscription. Records the foundation of the sluice on which it is engraved.

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svasti śrī

Aiñ-ṉūṟṟuvar ra kṣai

ceyvittāṉ cāttaṉ ṉiīlaṉ

Aiñṉūṟṟuvar Aiñṉūṟṟuvar Possibly Aiñṉuṟṟuvar to be emended to Aiñṉūṟṟuvar. ṉilaṉ ṉīlaṉ

Prosperity! Fortune!

This is under the protection of the Ainnūṟṟuvars.That is, the Five Hundred, that is, the members of the so-named merchant guild.

He who had thisThat is, the sluice on which the inscription is engraved. made is Cāttaṉ Nīlaṉ.

Two emblems (a goad and seemingly a fourk) are engraved at the end of line 1, whereas, below the 4 lines, are engraved another series of emblems including an arrow, a bow, a scythe, surmounted by an object flanked by lamps, itself surmounted by an umbrella flanked by fly-whisks.

Edited in (Āvaṇam 1.15.5).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis based on photos (N. Ramaswamy, 2017).

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